Welcome to the Blogosphere Arms Control Law

by Duncan Hollis

Via an e-mail from Dan Joyner I learned today about a new blog he’s founded — Arms Control Law. Here’s the pitch from one of the inaugural posts:

As the name suggests, this blog will be devoted to discussion and analysis of arms control law subjects. I wanted to start this blog because all of the current blogs in the arms control area focus on either technical or politics/policy views of arms control. There has been no blog that provides a serious forum for rigorous discussion of legal issues relative to arms control, by arms control legal experts – until now!

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